Chapter VIII

Love Is So Twisted

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"…What are you still doing up?"

Sasuke sighed in relief as he dispelled himself from the person's weak hold on him. Though if it his brother were trying this move on someone else, his older brother might be able to freeze them and even control them completely. That was something bad, but Itachi could not control or hold Sasuke at all. The only reason Itachi could get Sasuke in any form of mental hold was because Sasuke had a strong reaction to his brother's wave patterns, but it was not a hurtful amount of power, or any kind of hold Itachi had on Sasuke.

It was just their attraction.

"Why are you still up?" Sasuke snapped back.

"Couldn't sleep, was missing you too much" Itachi murmured and Sasuke smiled in the darkness, the moon made his pale skin luminous almost making it seem as it was glowing and it had Itachi mesmerized. Sasuke did not have to use no spell to hold onto his brother's complete and undivided attention after all. "And…. There are so many things that have to be done tomorrow that are really stressing me" Itachi leaned against the wall with a sigh.

"…You'll be spending your time with that Haruno girl…" Sasuke whispered with sadness. Itachi smiled. He now knew that his brother didn't like that and was also completely worried to lose him to that girl. That was never going to happen though. For one he loved his brother and for the other he was gay.

"I was thinking on making a disappearance act" Itachi walked over to Sasuke and embraced his cute Otouto. "With you my beautiful Otouto no doubt." yep, no doubt, none at all, but there was not going to be a disappearing act, Sasuke had to help his mother in the kitchen tomorrow and Itachi was going to have to spend time with that Haruno girl, there was no way to escape tomorrows arrangements but wishing helped.

"Can...I sleep with you? Aniki" Sasuke whispered into Itachi's chest as he breathed in his older brother's scent. Damn, the hug was so warm and perfect and made him sleepy just hearing his aniki's heart beat….what time was it anyway? He just wanted to stay with Itachi now and forever like this with no girl or anyone else in the way.

The feeling of possessiveness and being possessed…it felt so good!

"Of course you can" With that Itachi lifted Sasuke up who gasped in surprise and took him bridal style to his room, as soon as they were in he gently set Sasuke down onto the bed but Sasuke wrapped his arms around Itachi hard to not let go, so Itachi had trouble taking off his shoes before dipping both him and his Sasuke into bed.

"… Are you ready to sleep Otouto" Sasuke nodded rubbing his cheek against his brother's chest.

"I am, I'm with you and that's all that matters" Sasuke said and Itachi tightened his hold on his little brother and covered both of them with the soft plushy blanket, but both stayed wide awake relishing in the others presence, they were afraid to fall asleep and wake up only to find the other one gone….it scared them to think that this was their mind playing tricks on them from all the longing.

"Don't ever leave me" Itachi whispered into Sasuke's ear softly. He didn't ever want to lose his brother.

"I never plan to" Sasuke responded and both stayed still, watching nothing but the darkness that seemed to embrace them. Suddenly this night was not enough for it was not going to be long until the sun decided to show its first rays of the day and take each other away. Sasuke wanted to say something about his father's repenting on this wedding but he was to scare that he was wrong so he just kept his mouth shut.

He looked up to peer at Itachi whose eyes were closed and as if he sensed that Sasuke was looking at him he opened his eyes and looked down at his little brother. "Something wrong little brother?"

"No" Sasuke sighed and decided to tell Itachi about his problem, but the static was not there. Usually when he was with Itachi everything was bliss, like an escape from the ever talking world. This was his safe heaven. "Well …Itachi..." Itachi pecked Sasuke on the lips; he wanted his little brother never to be scared to tell him anything that was in his mind. Hold nothing back and let him know him body, mind, and soul.

"What?" Tell everything only to him.

"When…I'm with you...Everything is so perfect and I just want to stay here for ever" Sasuke gulped and chuckled a bit "That's kinds cheesy huh…but I don't want you to marry her, I'd say and do anything to keep you forever mine"

"No, it's the way you feel. Sasuke" Sasuke looked at Itachi directly in his darks eyes as his brother all of a sudden spoke in a firm voice that commanded his attention and that this was no joke, it was time for serious.

"Yes"

"I want you…" Itachi sighed "I want you to always be able to tell me everything that bothers you are makes you...feel like it's something you need to tell me or want to share" Sasuke smiled softly at that "...but I don't want you to fell obligated, like you have to tell me how your feeling every second of the time, I'll be able to tell. Just please don't leave me in the dark when it comes to you"

"I won't if you don't"

"Huh"

"After that time that you stopped hanging out with me constantly and you stopped annoying me….I felt that you've grown distant in some way and I didn't know some part of you"

"But now you do" Itachi whispered pushing back Sasuke's bangs to see that face glow on the moon light "Is because I love you more than a brother should and I didn't want to taint your mind when you were younger. I didn't want to impose that incest derived thought in your barely learning mind, specially when kids observe everything like a sponge at that age" Sasuke nodded idly, he was starting to become tired and the lack of sleep so far was not helping.

"Oh" Sasuke didn't know what else to say "I'm just glad it was not because you hated me and didn't want to be my brother" he whispered.

"You thought that I hated you?"

"Yes, at one point I thought you did not care and it scared me" Itachi tightened his hold on Sasuke drawing him closer. "I was scared I had already lost you and I didn't know what I had done wrong….to make you dislike me"

"Don't be more foolish Otouto, I would never hate you" Sasuke scoffed.

"Yeah. Right. Mom and dad told me how you despised the very idea that I was going to be born which leaves me wondering….when did you fall in love with me?" Sasuke tilted his head back with an adorable curious look playing on his face.

Itachi was stomped, he did say he never wanted a younger brother nor sister and now here he was that he loved his little brother, he was glad he didn't have a sister "I don't know when exactly…but I felt an attachment to you the first time I held you. The first time I saw you I wanted to reach out but I denied it in myself, I already had said I would despise the baby, so I didn't and then mom…"

"That's confusing; you hated me and loved me?"

"Yeah, but the time I claimed you as mine, I have to say for sure was when I nearly lost you"

"Where you jealous that Naruto was my friend…?" Sasuke just had to know and Itachi wanted to bang his head because he was hoping his little brother would not pick at it.

"Yes, okay. I get jealous if anyone else tries anything on you! And them just thinking on it, I'll kill them!" Itachi tickled his little brother.

"Itachi!" Sasuke laughed.

"Now it's your turn to tell me when you first fell in love with me" Sasuke's laughter ceased as he noticed that he was now right underneath Itachi. Smooth bastard, was he not. Sasuke touched Itachi's cheek and locked eyes with his brother once again.

"I guess I've always loved you…at first I thought it was nothing and then I missed you so much when you were gone and I felt alone when you were away" Sasuke closed his eyes "I thought I lost you to your friends and even more when they announced that you were to marry that Haruno Girl …. I felt my heart wrench painfully and I felt like I was losing something… a big part of me was being taken away…ripped away from me" Sasuke was trying not to cry but tears were starting to form by his eyes.

Itachi leaned down and kissed Sasuke on the lips and then with his thumb wiped the now free falling tears away. "Shhhh, don't cry little brother" Itachi could tell that Sasuke was deeply hurt by it. Now he knew why Sasuke was so hesitant about their relationship, he was afraid to get to attach and lose his brother in the end. "Please don't cry...I'll never leave you" Sasuke nodded hugging on to Itachi tightly and close.

"Aniki"

"Sasuke, many things will stand in our way and love is not easy or simple and it sometimes hurt us…" Itachi said desperately, seeing Sasuke cry made him want to cry. Like if it was his fault and he was the one that had hurt him, he could feel tears well up in the corner of his own eyes and his nose and cheeks heat up. "We'll get through it together. In the end it will all be the sweetness. Us"

"Love can also destroy us"

"Little brother...I'd never ever hurt you. Ever"

"I know. I trust you with my life….but we also make mistakes"

"Sasuke" Itachi locked their lips in a deep passionate kiss. What else could he do? All of this was bringing hurt into their love. One thing was for sure, Itachi knew that their love will be able to withstand all these twists of fate and it will conquer in the end. There will be no more pain or tears…just joy and happiness.

Everything was going to be just fine.

"I'm so happy just being yours"

"And you are only mine as I am yours as well. You're my everything Sasuke" Sasuke buried his face in the crook of his older brother's neck. Silence was all that was left, what else was there to say, they would never try to deny that they are their whole life. Without the other the other won't survive and eventually die of the loneliness that engulfs those Immortals without their love.

Sure, Immortals means live forever.

But you can't live forever without the love of your life.

Loneliness weights down in you heart, and you start to age.

Gently, softly, the rhythm of their heart beats lulled them to sleep for come morning and they will have to put on a fake act and fight the most agonizing battle of their life.

Love Is So Twisted.

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